June 30, 1892 to November 20, 1892

Violence was more prevalent in the New South than the Old South, and racial violence was just one part of Southern violence. One incident of racial violence began on July 11. Two or three hundred blacks, armed with rifles, congregated in the vicinity of the jail in Paducah, Kentucky, prepared for an attack. The Sheriff gathered a posse of fifty or seventy-five armed men. <br /><br />The...

The state militia stood at the ready. The dark sketch was taken on July 12, 1892. The sketch depicted Andrew Carnegie's Pennsylvania steel plant surrounded by military. The Homestead plant sketch was taken from a wood engraving by T. de Thulstrap. The Swedish born immigrant came to America in the 19th century. The immigrant would achieve the American Dream as a Harper's Weekly...

On June 21 through July 4, 1892, the Ninth Annual Session of the Teachers' Assembly convened at Morehead City in Beaufort County. The meeting brought together thousands of educators and their friends and was meant to restore strength and energy to them in the relaxing city on the sea. The committee chose among the top teachers in North Carolina to speak at the session and each department was...

A New Bern ratification meeting on July 6, 1892 reflected more of a Democratic rally than a meeting as Cleveland, Carr and Victory chanted through the air in Craven County. The meeting set the Democratic ball in motion as the assembly greeted the resolution with applause and enthusiasm. Mr. Furnifold McLendel Simmons, the first speaker, championed Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson as the perfect...

Smith Tooley and John L. Adams were charged with the murder of Benson Blake and with many robberies. Benson Blake was a proprietor of a store in Vickburg, Mississippi. One night, he got wind that Tooley and some other Negroes were headed to rob his store. When the Negroes arrived, Benson and his friends were waiting for them. In a moment of rage, the Negroes fired through the window of the store,...

In 1890s Baltimore, coats were made in a multi-stage process. First, Lithuanian “cutters” employed by wholesalers of fabric worked in warehouses to form the parts of coats—the sleeves, the collars, and so on. Next, these parts were moved to the sweatshops that teemed in the neighborhood bounded by Fayette Street and Eastern Avenue on the north and south, and Central Avenue and Broadway on...

The Homestead Strike was a series of labor confrontations that occurred for nearly five months in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. On June 30, 1892, a three-year contract with the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers expired. The Carnegie Steel Company, managed at this time by Henry Clay Frick, attempted to cut the wages of the skilled steel workers. When the workers refused...

Since the ambitious Loring A. Chase crafted his initial vision of Winter Park, he predicted that its success would derive from the tourism industry. As the Seminole Hotel was an enormous stride in the structural economic development of tourism, the whole town dynamic centered around the hotel. For instance, Hannibal Square was created to serve as a residential area for the employees of the Seminole,...

In 19th century America, many men enjoyed the services of prostitutes but disliked prostitution. This ironic dichotomy was very evident amongst the upper class men of New Orleans, and it heavily influenced the future landscape of the city. With a 'not in my backyard' view of prostitution, the wealthy males of New Orleans, although many were clients of prostitutes, did not want their homes...